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In all honesty; can you really beat the "One-with-nature" feeling that you get from camping in a tent? From my personal experiences, I feel that camping with something other than a tent is not "camping" at all. I do not see an RV as a potential way to camp; I see it as more of a portable home. You have your television set, you have your video game consoles, and you have your cooker, your heating, your showers and your toilets. Looking at it in a logical manner how is that camping at all?

The whole idea of camping is to live and experience Mother Nature in her finest. This means getting as close to nature, without freezing to death of course, as possible, and to me, the only way I can see to make this possible is to camp in a tent.

With a tent you get the full experience; you can hear the rain hitting down hard, you can feel the ground around you and you can hear every little sound that comes from the area around your site. The only thing stopping you from being completely outside is a small, material shelter. Everything else remains the same. You have no access to hot water, no access to central heating, no access to modern day electronics, you are one with nature. You are experiencing one of the finest and most beautiful things in life, the most natural thing possible. You are living with nature and experiencing it to the fullest.

Would you get that same experience with an RV? No you would not. You would not be paying attention to the sounds around you, the scurrying of the animals or the rain on your tent. You would be listening to your television set, slowly but surely becoming one step closer to being totally oblivious to life outside of the three dimensional. Not only is it not healthy; it is way too common, way too lacking excitement. It is boring, it is dense and it is hollow. It is exactly the same as living at home, when you go on a camping trip to get away from home, you expect something different, something new and something fresh. You can ONLY get that experience from Tent camping. You can not get it from a hotel, from an RV or even from a caravan. Tent camping is simply one of a kind.

If you are even considering a camping trip with your family, especially father and son bonding, fishing trips and the likes, never exchange in your tent for an RV, you take the majority of the experience from the experience itself, and there is nothing that compares to tent camping. It is classic, it is vintage, it is totally unique. It brings you closer as a family and closer to nature, and that's as close as you are going to get while still keeping a shelter over your head.

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